Better info at the local newspaper site....can't link here. Look it up.

Interesting since we just had such a close call with the Los Alamos fire.2,000 acres have burned apparently from two different probable lightening strikes.....within the Nevada National Security Site. [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Re: Wildfire at Nevada National Security Site ~ UPDATE 7/09 RADIOLOGICAL Monitoring stations have been set up

New Update....

Radiological monitoring stations have been set up near the fires and no positive radiological readings have been detected70+ personnel are currently battling the blazes both on the ground and in the air [link to www.nv.doe.gov]

No one is covering this story. In fact I think I'm the only one watching.

Re: Wildfire at Nevada National Security Site ~ UPDATE 7/09 RADIOLOGICAL Monitoring stations have been set up

I'd be watching if I was in Utah....

The test site offers monthly public tours, often fully booked months in advance. Visitors are not allowed to bring in cameras, binoculars, cell phones, or pick up rocks for souvenirs.[9]

While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still subcritical testing, used to determine the viability of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal. Additionally, the site is the location of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which sorts and stores low-level radioactive waste that is not transuranic and has a half life not longer than 20 years. Bechtel Nevada Corporation (a joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Bechtel and Johnson Controls) ran this complex until 2006. Several other companies won the latest bid for the contract. They then combined to form a new company called National Security Technologies, LLC (a joint venture of Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nuclear Fuel Services[10]). AECOM, known earlier as Holmes and Narver, held the Nevada Test Site contract for many years before Bechtel Nevada Corp. had it.[citation needed]The Radiological/Nuclear WMD Incident Exercise Site (T-1), which replicates multiple terrorist radiological incidents with train, plane, automobile, truck, and helicopter props is located in Area 1, at the former site of tests EASY, SIMON, APPLE-2, and GALILEO.[11] [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Re: Wildfire at Nevada National Security Site ~ UPDATE 7/09 RADIOLOGICAL Monitoring stations have been set up

This is reprehensible that natl media is not covering this as it potentially can affect us for many generations. The following is only available in the site's cache-I suggest you save it in case it disappears. Where are the REAL journalists? People who care about human life and life on earth?

Adding more fuel to the fire: Scientists in Canada recently confirmed a theory that forest fires are capable of re-distributing radionuclides over great distances. Over the past half-century, wild fires within the boundaries of the Nevada Test Site - and prescribed burns outside the boundaries - have re-dispersed radioactive particles from atomic testing and dispersal experiments throughout the NTS, the State of Nevada and beyond Nevada's borders. When the BLM proposed a fire management plan in 2001 targeted at forests north of NTS, the Western Shoshone were up in arms, saying the burns would stir up radioactive debris lying dormant in dead trees and affect downwind communities. ...radionuclides, such as plutonium, tend to accumulate in the top few centimeters of the soil. In ... Southern Nevada, where strong winds are commonplace, these radionuclides could easily be re-suspended and carried over distances of many miles.

Does anyone know where exactly the smoke is going? Have a weather report on the path of the particulates??

Re: Wildfire at Nevada National Security Site ~ UPDATE 7/09 RADIOLOGICAL Monitoring stations have been set up

To above poster ~

That explains why they set up the rad. monitoring stations huh?

Makes sense....I was assuming it was a precautionary measure for whatwas stored there. I didn't consider what's on the ground. Damn.

As to the weather: we are getting the monsoon weather coming up fromArizona right now. So it's blowing north and east.

Quoting: Madigan

I know it sucks :(

North and east-people should stay indoors as much as possible and get hepa filters imho

I have noticed a big spike in the readings I am getting on the West Coast in the last week or so. Today it is the highest-5 times what it was a week ago. I was wondering if the extra was from Nevada/Los Alamos?? Who knows?- add NE to the mix and with FUKU the world is so hurting from all the fallout and will be for ages - seems nuclear energy is Pandora's Box personified these days-worse than a bad sci fi novel